I had some fun with state assembly rep. Chuch DeVore recently over on OCBlog.net about his proposed legislation to prevent terrorists or those who support terrorist organizations from being state employees. Basically, I think Chuck is worried about the next…
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PAC-man
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
Marty Wisckol’s column in Monday’s Register outs GOP consultant Adam Problesky and the Lincoln Club as the parties behind the Irvine City, School and Neighborhood Leaders Committee, the group that put out some of the meanest and nastiest fliers in…
Rudy Guiliani’s Ego Trip Requirements
by Dan Chmielewski • • 8 Comments
 Remember the story last year about VP Dick Cheney’s travel requests? (Big Dick wants every TV in the hotel tuned to Fox News of course.)But the Veep is a piker compared to the travel demands of OC Presidential hopeful…
A Reality Check for the Right Wing
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
I was reading Jon Fleischman’s column over on the Flash Report (I read Jon so you don’t have to), when this sentence, for a column critical of a Democratic appointment, struck me. Given that liberals control the State Senate (you know…
Be True to Your School
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
The principals in the case of the autistic child at Canyon View Elementary came out to press this week with their respective sides of the story. For those not tracking this story, the parents of a severely autistic 7-year old…
Romantic Irvine
by Dan Chmielewski • • 5 Comments
It was just a few years after I moved to the OC that then-Irvine Mayor Christina Shea had launched this initiative to make Irvine a more romantic city. She started a task force to come up with recommendations on ways…
Dinosaur Farts?
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
I’m back from a very successful trip to San Francisco with a smattering of musings: 1. Voters in San Francisco don’t care about the Mayor’s affair; the only question that no one seemed to have an answer about was whether…
